Duplicate Catalog Items
Magicmoon:
I'm having a problem with 2 or more thumbnails showing the same floor tile or wallpaper in the catalog. But there is actually only one of each in the download folder. It started with a few floors showing duplicates, but some are now showing up to 4 duplicate thumbnails.
It started sometime after using WTF editor from DJS. I used the tool to mass rename all of my floors and walls so that their filename matches the internal name that shows up in the catalog. Somewhere along the line I think that duplicate thumbnails or something like that has been created. I don't know for certain that this program had anything to do with my problem, but I suspect it as only walls and floors are showing duplicate catalog pics. There is also an option within the program to generate a cache to make it faster when editing walls and floors. I did generate this cache, but it is stored in the program folder with the WTF editor, not in the Mydocs>Sims area.
If I delete one of the duplicates from within the game, I lose that particular wall or floor, so I know that it is not real duplicates in the catalog. Plus I've run a program that searches for duplicate files.
I tried deleting the build mode cache, but that didn't help. I don't want to start deleting caches willy-nilly because some of this stuff, like the CAS clothing and hair, takes forever to rebuild the cache.
So anyone know what I should be doing to fix this problem? Delete a different cache? Delete a particular combination of caches? Something else?
Anyone else had this problem with or without the WTF tool?
Emma:
I suggest you put all the walls and floors you want to keep that are duplicates onto an empty lot, then package the lot to your computer. Delete all the duplicates, save and quit then just install the packaged lot. Hopefully you will just have 1 of each floor/wall. :)
moniquinin:
This has happened to me as well, just with floors though (I think) and all I've done is play the damn game, since I'm on a Mac and can't do much else regarding the custom content.
Actually, upon thinking about it, I think this happens after I do the following:
1. Install a lot that I've dled from MTS2.
2. Entered the lot, looked around, realise I don't like it.
3. Bulldozed the lot, and probably deleted it from my lot bin. (not sure if this is a big nono)
I've deleted, like you, what I thought at first were duplicate files only to discover that when I click on the one thumbnail in the catalog left, it just shows as the generic build floor. I thought that maybe duplicate files existed somewhere, not properly named, but as those nonsense-named files that are created when using the package installer. But, apparently not. I just don't understand why the thumbnails still show up in the catalog when there's nothing behind them, and I think, but can't be 100% certain, they remain even after I quit the game and restart it. I know for a fact that the duplicated thumbnails remain after restarting.
Don't know if this was at all helpful, but you're not alone in your pain ;)
purplehaze:
I too have duplicate sets in my buy mode catalog for a nursery set. I'm extremely anal-retentive about subfoldering my DL file. I searched and only found one mesh and the 4 recolors for each duplicate item. I have no idea how this one set became two in my game . LOL It must have bred when I wasn't looking.
I'd be interested in how to take care of this also.
Emma:
What if you do as I suggested a couple of posts up, then delete the relevant thumbnail packages in the Thumbnails folder. The object/buildmode thumbnails will be replaced when you next start the game. Don't know if it would work, but worth a try.
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